Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 72
The oxen which drew the waggon stopped every now and then, where a patch of fresh grass appeared amid the heather.
Who acts: oxen, patch · What happens: draw, stop, appear · To what, where: waggon, every, heather
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oxen, patch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oxen | det |
| 2 | oxen | oxen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 oxen | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 waggon | det |
| 6 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 stopped | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stopped | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 appeared | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 appeared | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appeared | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 appeared | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 patch | det |
| 15 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grass | case |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grass | amod |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 patch | nmod |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 now | conj |
| 20 | amid | amid | ADP | _ | 22 heather | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heather | det |
| 22 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appeared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the oxen | the waggon | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waggon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the oxen | every | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality every=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | appear | past | a patch of fresh grass | the heather | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amid heather=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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